November 11, 2006

This obviously deserves a detailed post but with a ton of ‘Lorem Ipsum’ placeholder text to replace this weekend that will have to wait.

In the meantime…

At Winksite it has always been our goal to provide a service that supports how people prefer to engage their mobile devices (and each other) rather then what we ‘hoped’ they would do. We purposely developed a tool that was designed wide in order to learn as much as possible. We figured, launch a flexible publishing tool, step out of the way, watch, listen, then respond with innovations. Along the way we talked to hundreds of people, read and responded to thousands of email requests, and participated in the many communities that arose worldwide.

Well, now it’s time to respond. We’ll be building upon what we have learned and go deep for a while. Expect regular, iterative releases over the next 90 days. I’ll post our thoughts throughout and be interested in hearing yours.

So, if you are inclined head over to Winksite to see what’s brewing. Some of what we are up to will be immediately clear, while other aspects will be apparent over time.

And, while we promise not to break anything you’ll notice in the short term a bit of the old mixed with the new.

November 02, 2006

Biodiesel bounty in rural India: "On the hilly grasslands of the western state of Maharashtra, near the village of Malegaon, Chindu and his tribe of some 40 men and women busily plant jatropha saplings. The saplings are expected to bear seed in three to four years, one of dozens of new biodiesel projects being planned by private firms to feed India's galloping energy needs."

Denver Pizza Chain Welcomes New York Transplants: "Colorado is the new burrough. Denver-based Anthony's New York Pizza has created a bumper sticker campaign that will place stickers in the hands of 500 people who have relocated from the New York area to the Denver area. The...

October 22, 2006

At first glance this looks great. If you don't have enough money for a car and do have enough money for a good cell phone, Google's service just might be the answer for you. There doesn't seem to be any logic to the cities in which they are offering service, so if you live in one of them great. The rest of us need to hope our metropolitan area is one of the next on the list.

Last year, Google launched a new service called 'Google Transit'. It was a version of Google Maps that provided directions for navigating public transportation. It was great, but it only covered one city: Portland, Oregon. Google has now added five more cities to the service: Seattle WA, Pittsburgh PA, Eugene OR, Tampa FL, and Honolulu HI.

June 24, 2006

Is the BBC ahead of this story in reporting what appears to be a logical extension of gaming and urban design? It would appear that this type of modeling makes sense. Is this scalable down to the neighbourhood level? I see many developers here in theDenverarea taking various sized parcels of land and rolling out “cookie cutter” housing on any available open space. While some are better than others in actually having a plan for the development it appears that there are entirely to many builders/developers that are simply interesting in only building houses, without any forethought.